Tagged: Abbé Batteux

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 21, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 29)

I am happy to present the twenty-ninth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 17, 2021

(Pictured: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.) I am happy to present the second post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 24, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 1)

(Pictured: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.) I am happy to present the first post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed...